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Archive for the ‘Costa Rica’ Category

Distance: 61.1 km Ride time: 3:09:23 Average: 19.4 km/h Max speed: 47.5 km/h Total: 35542 km With only 20 km to the border with Nicaragua it was time to say goodbye to Costa Rica. What a pleasant country. Now I was looking forward to see what this next Central American country had to offer. The [ Read More ]

Distance: 109.2 km Ride time: 6:12:45 Average: 17.6 km/h Max speed: 45.4 km/h Total: 35478 km Reaching the northern parts of Costa Rica, the landscape is turning more dry – very different from the otherwise super lush and green country I have been cycling through ever since entering this beautiful country. I don’t think they [ Read More ]

Distance: 101.1 km Ride time: 5:29:45 Average: 18.4 km/h Max speed: 53.6 km/h Total: 35367 km I found a small road on my map and decided to give it a go. I was rewarded with nice views and little traffic, but had to pay in terms of some very steep climbs. With fresh legs after [ Read More ]

Distance: 45.93 km Ride time: 2:00:00 Average: 22.96 km/h Max speed: 56.35 km/h Total: 35264 km It required a bit of adjustment to return from the high octane life I had been living in the US for the last 10 days. On the other hand, when returning to everyday life means cycling around the world, [ Read More ]

Distance: 27.70 km Ride time: 2:22:04 Average: 11.70 km/h Max speed: 44.82 km/h Total: 35216 km Only a short two hour ride to my friend Jorge TI2HMJ’s house outside of San Jose, but when all 27 km are uphill even such a short distance can be hard enough. Also way from the Pacific coast, Costa [ Read More ]

Distance: 111.32 km Ride time: 5:33:14 Average: 20.04 km/h Max speed: 53.21 km/h Total: 35188 km There are good and bad places to get a flat tire – a good place would be next to a tropical beach. When it happened I made a break out of it, went down to the beach, had a [ Read More ]

Distance: 69.41 km Ride time: 3:42:17 Average: 18.73 km/h Max speed: 51.68 km/h Total: 35077 km I didn’t get much sleep in my tent last night – simply too hot and too many mosquitoes. As a result I aimed for a short day to the tourist town of Quepos where I knew there would be [ Read More ]

Distance: 106.20 km Ride time: 5:38:21 Average: 18.83 km/h Max speed: 54.36 km/h Total: 35008 km Wow, this was a cycling day as they should all be… easy cruising through a tropical landscape altering between rain forests and picture perfect beaches. The rumours that Costa Rica is a beautiful places certainly turned out to be [ Read More ]

Distance: 92.38 km Ride time: 4:26:35 Average: 20.79 km/h Max speed: 43.05 km/h Total: 34902 km I didn’t have many expectations when I arrived in Panama but I have very much been positively surprised. The people are as friendly as in Colombia, and there is so much diversity – from the sky scrapers in Panama [ Read More ]